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Women's history: Politics, suffrage and the labour movement

Microfilm: British Labour Party papers on women’s issues, 1960-1974

Humanities microfilm 110

From the series: Labour history. Series 1. Parts 2 & 3

Papers from the British Labour Party’s Study Group on Discrimination against Women (Sep 1968-May 1970). Part of the microfilm series Labour History part 2, which records British Labour Party Research Department memoranda and information papers 1960-1970.

Labour History part 3 (1970-1974) includes a second draft of the final report, Mar 1972, a final report, May 1972, a redraft of chapter 7 on women and social security, Jul 1972, an amended final report, Aug 1972, and an addendum, Nov 1972.

Labour History part 3 also contains:

Resolutions referred to the Home Policy Committee by the National Conference of Labour Women, May 1971

Memoranda, ‘Girls and Women, Education and Training’ from the Science and Education Sub-Committee, Oct 1971 and Feb 1972

Memorandum ‘Education policy for a Secretary of State to improve the chances of girls and women, by Margherita Rendel, Science and Education Sub-Committee, Mar 1973

Resolutions received from the Scottish Labour Women’s Annual Conference, Regional and Local Government Sub-Committee, Jun 1974

White Paper on Equality for Women, 1974

Information paper, ‘A few notes on abortion’, 1974

Microfilm: Marion Phillips M.P. and Ellen Wilkinson M.P., 1881-1947

Humanities microfilm 9

From the series: Archives of the British Labour Party general correspondence. Part 9 Sec. B, The Marion Phillips papers and Ellen Wilkinson scrapbook

Documents from the British Labour Party Archive, from 1873-1973. The papers of Marion Phillips (1881-1932), and the scrapbook of Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947). Both women were Labour Party politicians and Members of Parliament.

Microfilm: The Women’s Labour League, 1906-1918

Humanities microfilm 9

From the series: Archives of the British Labour Party. [Part 4], The Women's Labour League 1906-1918

Documents from the British Labour Party Archive, from 1873-1973. Included are correspondence, minutes and records of the early Women’s Labour League 1906-1918.

Microfilm: Sylvia Pankhurst’s journals, 1914-1950s

Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst’s three journals are held on microfilm: Woman’s Dreadnought (1914-1917) Mic.B.009, Worker’s Dreadnought (1917-192?)] Mic.B.010, and New Times and Ethiopia News (1936-195?) Mic.B.007.

Microfilm: Radical and reforming periodicals for and by women, 1872-1927

Microfilmed from originals in the British Library. Humanities microfilm 467

Microfiche: Diary of Beatrice Webb, 1873-1943

Humanities microfiche Mic.C.041

Martha Beatrice Webb, 1858-1943 was an English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer. Along with her husband Sidney Webb and numerous others, she co-founded the London School of Economics and Political Science and played a crucial role in the forming of the Fabian Society.

Only extracts from her diary have ever been published before. This microfiche edition reproduces the complete text in two forms: the original manuscript written in 57 exercise books, and a later typescript. The diaries provide much insight into British intellectual and political life at this time, and also reveals much about the complex personality of Beatrice Webb herself.